I have uncovered a few more simple issues with the CookieManager which have been causing me some grief: The method CookieManager.getCookieFromHeader(String, URL) will use the URL properties to set the domain and path information for the cookie, rather than the information encapsulated within the cookie itself. String domain = url.getHost(); //still use original code for defaults - is this required ? String path = url.getFile(); // NEW CODE STARTS HERE// String tokName; //we have made some assumptions up above which may not prove correct... while (st.hasMoreTokens()) { nvp = st.nextToken(); delim = nvp.indexOf('=',0); tokName = nvp.substring(0, delim).trim(); //unfortunately we cannot make any assumptions concerning the order of the attributes... if (tokName.equalsIgnoreCase("domain")) { domain = nvp.substring(delim+1); } else if (tokName.equalsIgnoreCase("path")) { path = nvp.substring(delim+1); } } //NEW CODE ENDS HERE// --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]